I am writing the first book-length, critical biography of Catholic Charismatic healing evangelist Francis MacNutt (1925-2020). From a theoretical framework of lived religion, I combine methods of archival research, historical and literary analysis, and oral history. I ask how one influential individual navigated in/congruencies between beliefs and experiences—of pain, illness, disability, healing, sexuality—and how choices reflected and shaped U.S. and global religious and cultural developments. MacNutt renounced careers in medicine and theater as well as marriage to become a priest. Before his “Baptism in the Holy Spirit”—a physically pleasant experience—he associated pleasure with sin and pain with sanctity. Discovering spiritual value in pleasure, he reevaluated the body positively. Rejecting belief that sex is sinful or pain produces holiness, he challenged clerical celibacy and advocated healing prayer. Pivoting from priest to prophet and patriarch, he argued that celibacy—refusing sex to become holy—is unhelpful, and hypocritical given gaps between doctrine and practice. He questioned the justice of counseling suffering people, especially poor people in the Global South, to resign themselves to sickness since praying for healing alleviated suffering. As “prophet,” he saw what others did not yet see, upset the status quo, and confronted hypocrisy and injustice. As “patriarch,” he fathered a healing-prayer movement while, paradoxically, dismantling patriarchal power relations. MacNutt’s story helps us to understand the embodied nature of the human condition, a prerequisite for appreciating the diverse ways that people experience their bodies and navigate in/congruencies between experiences and beliefs. This study nuances critiques by scholars of disability, postcolonialism, and feminist and queer theory. It equips church leaders to help both the churched and unchurched to sympathize with new perspectives and grow more open to having their assumptions challenged.